Dear all,
Wikimania is an extraordinary event: consider hosting it!!
By December 16th express your interest in hosting Wikimania in 2024, 2025 and beyond
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Expressions_of_Interest <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Expressions_of_Interest>
You don’t need to have a venue secured or event logistics in place, that’s something we will work on together. At this point, we are primarily seeking your expression of interest. Hosting an international event with the size and magnitude of Wikimania – and now with added distributed and hybrid participation models – is complicated. With resources from the Foundation and guidance from the Wikimania Steering Committee, you will also have access to professional event organizers on the ground that can support this work. We also plan for an overlap with the current Wikimania 2023 organizing team to build in plenty of time for learning and collaboration.
Looking forward to discuss with you new locations for our future Wikimanias
Best regards,
Iolanda, on behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee#Members <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee#Members>
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/05/saudi-arabia-jails-two-w…
"Administrators jailed for 32 years, and eight years, as activists
warn of ploy to infiltrate website... Two high-ranking “admins” –
volunteer administrators with privileged access to Wikipedia,
including the ability to edit fully protected pages – have been
imprisoned since they were arrested on the same day in September
2020..."
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Greetings,
this is slightly offtopic and unrelated to Wikimedia in. the narrower
sense. I apologize for reaching out to this list. I work at a German NGO
dealing with human rights issues and we are looking for a Wikimedian from
Lithuania (Vilnius preferred) for two pieces of fact-checking which are
relevant to a case of litigation.
Please contact me at mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com for more information.
Happy new year to everyone,
Kind regards,
Mathias Schindler